On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Travis Oliphant <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mark and I will have conversations about NumPy while he is in Austin. >> There are many other active stake-holders whose opinions and views are >> essential for major changes. Mark and I are working on other things >> besides just NumPy and all NumPy changes will be discussed on list and >> require consensus or super-majority for NumPy itself to change. I'm not >> sure if that helps. Is there more we can do? > > As you might have heard me say before, my concern is that it has not > been easy to have good discussions on this list. I think the problem > has been that is has not been clear what the culture was, and how > decisions got made, and that had led to some uncomfortable and > unhelpful discussions. My plea would be for you as BDF$N to strongly > encourage on-list discussions and discourage off-list discussions as > far as possible, and to help us make the difficult public effort to > bash out the arguments to clarity and consensus. I know that's a big > ask.
Hi Matthew, As you know, I agree with everything you just said :-). So in interest of transparency, I should add: I have been in touch with Travis some off-list, and the main topic has been how to proceed in a way that let's us achieve public consensus. -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
